Team & Network

Fergal Lenehan is a researcher who has engaged with intellectual history and cultural studies since acquiring his initial undergraduate degrees at University College Dublin. Following this, he received a PhD from the University of Leipzig and a Habilitation (the German formal post-doctoral qualification) from the University of Jena. He has written monographs on the intellectual engagement with Europe and German media depictions of Ireland. His current work revolves around theories of cosmopolitanism, cyber-utopianism and the platform Twitter. He has just completed the co-editing of, and the writing of the introduction to, the volume Reclaiming the European Street: Speeches on Europe and the European Union, 2016-2020, by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins.

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The chief pillars of Luisa Conti’s highly interdisciplinary research are communication and education. After her studies at the University of Udine (Italy), she moved to Germany where she became a lecturer and researcher at the University of Jena. Following her PhD, which examined on-line projects related to Intercultural Dialogue and which was undertaken in Jena and Padua, she questioned her Eurocentric perspective by spending research time in Latin America. In the context of the European Project SHARMED (SHARed MEmories and Dialogues) she focused on the power of communication in shaping inclusion/exclusion, while in her studies for ReDICo she re-orients this focus towards the World Wide Web. Furthermore she is also supervising the creation of a participatory, multilingual e-learning platform for the EU-Project KIDS4ALLL (Key Inclusive Development Strategies for LifeLong Learning).

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Dr. Roman Lietz has been dealing with questions regarding integration and participation in the context of acculturation for over a decade. In addition to his practical integration work, for example as the former head of the second largest community interpreter project in Germany and as an intercultural trainer, he has also worked academically on various aspects of structural, cultural, social and identificatory integration. In recent third-party projects funded by the European Integration Fund (EIF), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) he has dealt with the participation of migrants and other underrepresented groups in voluntary work, sport clubs and education.

Dr. Milene Oliveira is a researcher and linguist who has been involved in the study of interculturality from an applied linguistic perspective since her MA studies in Brazil. She acquired her PhD from the University of Potsdam, where she studied business negotiations in English as a lingua franca and published a book entitled ‘Business negotiations in ELF from a cultural linguistic perspective’ in the series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics, from De Gruyter. Her current work revolves around the online use of English as a Lingua Franca.